David Wilton

Bef 1608 - 1678  (> 69 years)

• Name	David Wilton
  Birth	Bef 1 May 1608  [1, 2]
  Baptism	1 May 1608	St. Mary's, Beaminster, Dorset, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	5 Feb 1678	Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I28570	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	15 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Wilton,   b. of Beaminster, Dorset, England
  Family ID	F17033	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine
  Marriage	Bef 1632  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Wilton,   b. Abt 1632   d. 25 Aug 1683, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut (Age ~ 51 years)
  Family ID	F17032	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	15 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Emigrated in 1632. First at Dorchester, then Windsor in 1636, and Northampton by 1660. He was a trader. Deputy for Windsor to the general court eleven different times. Present at the "Falls Fight" during King Philip's War. Although he spent his last eighteen years at Northampton, he died in Windsor during a visit to his daughter. He was associated in the Northampton fur trade with TNH ancestor "Cornet" Joseph Parsons (1620-1683), who witnessed his will.

  
  

• Sources

  [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S255] Gerald James Parsons, "Were Joseph and Benjamin Parsons and David Wilton of Beaminster, Dorset, England, the New England Colonists?" The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:101, April 1989. [S4163] John Insley Coddington, "The Wilton and Marshall Families of Windsor, Conn., and Northampton, Mass." The American Genealogist 38:1, Jan 1962.